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The article: https://www.politico.eu/article/norway-arctic-region-asks-eu-commission-for-26-hour-day/

How would the new time zones work in practice? Wenche Pedersen, the mayor of Vadsø who authored the letter, is unsure.

“We haven’t thought a lot about that” she said. “The clock will go from 12 to 13… and we have to see how this will go. I don’t think they’re going to say yes so we haven’t thought about all the details.”

Huh. Great idea.

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Make a proposal without a plan or a feasibility study is peak management. Starting to understand how I end up with projects with very firm deadlines that are only vaguely defined and no one is sure if we have the resources on hand.

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In this case I suspect this mayor simply made this proposition to get their town some free publicity. I am more sympathetic to these performative actions if they’re just for the media attention.

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When every decision is made by people alienated from every material or functional concern by like ten layers of abstraction, all decisions smell of recent severe skull deforming head trauma.

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17 points

I hear they’re also declaring that pi equals three.

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25 points

Or 5

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I assume this is just to get people use to the idea of algebra.

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2 points

What the fuck? I can see pi being shortened to 3 for baby’s first geometry problem, but 5?

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They’ll settle for three-ish

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pi = 3.1±0.05

Gotta allow for a little uncertainty, just to absolutely ruin everything.

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